Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 5 Nov 2000 02:47:44 -0800 (PST) | From | Naren Devaiah <> | Subject | Re: Where is __this_module actually defined? |
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Does this mean that the module structure (struct module) and it's various substructures are filled in by insmod?
Regards, Naren
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Naren Devaiah wrote: > > > > > I've looked in the 2.4.0-pre10 source tree and found it defined as > > extern struct module __this_module; > > in module.h (among other files), but where is it actually defined? > > > > it isn't -- it's magic, of course :). The way it works is for insmod to > arrange things in such a manner that &__this_module resolves to point to > the beginning of module's address space, which happens to contain 'struct > module' at the beginning. > > Regards, > Tigran >
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